Wayne McGregor/Random Dance at Linbury, ROH

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Ten years ago Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance was commissioned to work with
artists from the Royal Ballet at the Linbury, the studio theatre downstairs
at the Royal Opera House. Now they are back in the same place, marking
Random’s 20th birthday by revisiting, as McGregor puts it, “the same spirit
of exchange and exploration”. What a shame that this new collaboration
involving dancers and choreographers from Random and the Royal should
produce a trio of indistinct and disappointing works.

Alexander Whitley (who dances with Random) contributed Hertz, inspired
by scientific theories of light and set to Allow the Light by